Last Updated on December 8, 2024 by freewarespace
Windows 11 comes up with bang. It is faster with numerous new features which makes one of perfect operating system ever. All of these features is now stable after release of Windows 11 stable versions. There are many hidden features which stay not enabled but if you read this article you can enable these features to provide more and more feature enhancements. All of these feature enhancements are in built in from Microsoft and all of these provide useful feature enhancements. Try to cover all of these new features in this article.
New Start Menu—
Start menu now moved from left hand below side to somewhere in the middle of taskbar and when it is clicked it will provide one of launcher type menu with search menu in the first and then followed by pinned app and then recommended apps. From recommended apps we can find most used apps, documents, photos and apps. I find recommended apps from the list of recently used apps and you can find all of these apps in recommended apps segment. Start menu is superfast and in the recent lists from recommended apps. This menu is now centered inside start menu.
New and revamped action center—
Windows 10 action center is now in an improved and revamped version. The ll new action center in Windows 11 come up with recently playing multimedia contents. Then you can find WiFi connections, Bluetooth connectivity, then battery saver, then night life , accessibility , nearby scanning then brightness control and then volume control and then battery percentages and then edit button and then you can find all settings from there. Then you can find name of desktop and then you can find connectivity options and then windows update and by clicking on it you can search for updates. Then you will find recommended settings which is from recently and commonly used settings. Then you will find install apps and from here you will have lists of all installable app and from here you can easily uninstall or remove all of the unwanted apps easily.
In short you will find all of information needed from here and can easily reach these menus without any delays. If you watch it correctly it is much more like that of accessing to mobile menu and its settings. This time action center comes up with faster responsive time and it works seamless and within hundredth of second it open up and it shows that Microsoft has performed some nice coding this time to improve the much needed action center with faster loading times. This time action center is clean and provides host of features where even entire computer can be controlled easily.
From this action center you can control and manage all of yours medias be it through computer or through Bluetooth or through casting. So, all of these settings can be controlled from here on. Whatever you run medias through YouTube, or playing Twitter clip or playing videos inside native Films & Tv app all will be shown inside action center and their volumes can be controlled without reaching to YouTube directly.
New and improved File Explorer—
Windows file explorer inside Windows 11 has seen completely overhaul in its design and it inclines more towards mobile file explorer with pre dominance on symbols to indicate what you intended to do, for example when you copy something then after reaching to paste destination you will find the paste icon and just click on it and the files will be pasted easily to its location. Now you have new context menu, vivid colorful icons. Inside file explorer you will find all of copy and paste options, and then rename, delete all of these options through symbols so that lesser space is needed to show inside of file explorer. You will have quick access, favorite, recent files. The old ribbon bar is now replaced and now it comes up with command bar with neat design.
Most of the older options of folder options are gone. The new folder come up with each and every convenience to use folder. This is a much desired update as since Windows XP , file explorer is same through out but now with Windows 11, we have all new File Explorer. It seems entire code is completely rewritten. File explorer is loading super-fast. If you want to have old context menu then you have the option to enable it through show more option and old context menu can be enabled and can be run simultaneously.
All new Microsoft Store—
I remember when I purchase Windows 8 laptop few years ago and for the first time I find concept of Microsoft Store but that time the loading of Microsoft store was extremely difficult. Even many a times it got struck and stays in the state of hanging and it provides one of most irritation computing experience. When I use Microsoft store inside Windows 11 it provides completely seamless experience and it now supports Windows 32 version of windows too. Now the code formats supports .Net, UWP, Xamarin, Electron, React Native, Java and progressive web apps. It also include themes and extensions of Microsoft Edge web browser.
There is no sluggish and hanging problem with Microsoft Store. Microsoft is saying that they will support android apps but not now, but in the later updates. If we observe Windows 11 functionalities then it is almost a big mobile operating system. It is nearer to mobile operating system.
Beautyful Settings App—
Microsoft begin providing writing new codes for settings app from Windows 10. Now with Windows 11 settings is completely redesigned and now it is similar for windows computer as well as for mobile screens. There are new menus, sub menus, breadcrumbs and static menu with settings app. It includes expandable menus to know more about specific features. Now you can find power and battery usuage report and screentime exactly same as that of Android or Apple mobile devices. Even you can browse for themes.
If you want to use same old control panel then it is there too. So you have legacy control panel as well as brand new a settings app. In most of areas settings icon is same as that of android or apple devices. In this way, you will feel at home with Windows 11 as from time to time you will have similar android operating system and this will make you work effortlessly with yours Windows 11 personal computer.
Quicker Windows Updates—-
I personally find windows update is now super-fast though now we have come to the situation where we reach to the state of high speed internet. When I see in the past during Windows XP time then we have slow dial up internet connectivity and during that time internet was slow so updates takes high amount of time. Now at this time when we have high speed internet downloading updates with Windows 11 is superfast when we are in the state of hardware optimization. Windows 11 updates works just like the same moving from one folder to another. It comes up with background update installation which makes the size of downloads to a bare minimum and that expediate the entire process of update installation. This makes size of updates almost 40 percentages smaller than previous updates.
This time with Windows 11, you will find the estimated installation time of updates. While we see the estimated time of update installation then if we are in a hurry to close the computer and to have an urgent work then you can ignore the updates and install on another time. So in this state of Windows update which is best among all the windows update of various past operating system starting from Windows XP, now we can find the amount of time updates takes to install on Windows 11 computer.
Windows 11 Widgets—
Windows 11 has start menu at the middle of task bar and at the lower left hand side of computer you will now have windows widgets. By placing mouse on the left hand below side widgets will appear. Here, you have weather updates and other updates regarding breaking news , Sensex activities. If you have one drive connected then you will find images uploaded to One drive. You can find many widgets and find the necessary widgets to find the information at your fingertips. It is so much of customizable and you can personalize all of these contents. If you find all of these widgets are completely time waster then there are ways to disable all of these widgets.
All the new context menu—
With the advent of Windows 11 we find the context menu that is when you right click on empty spaces. Then context menu will appear. Now we can find its new look and its corners are rounded. Refresh button is back though initial times it was removed. Though F5 works as usual. When you provide dark mode in desktop it will show the mica effect which provides clearer and clarity in reading context menu.
Voice Typing—
Android phones have speech to text by saying automatically types now with Windows 11 you have the similar option of speech to text to make yours typing without using keyboard. It also makes typing faster than keyboard typing. You can activate this feature through keyboard short cut Windows Logo + H . Compare to earlier versions of windows speech to text functions, Windows 11 computers provide far more correct ways and its speech recognition software which is in built inside Windows 11.
Conclusion—
This article tried to focus on the newer and innovative additions to Windows 11 personal computers. Most of these are superb new additions and with it you can find more and more ways to use yours computer, be it multi tasking and other productivity actions as most of these are neer windows features.
